Consultants Try the Hard Sell Do you work for a company that suffers from performance dysfunction? Then this may be the time to get a fresh surge of energy with a breakthrough treatment from the consulting world: corporate Viagra...

Scient's Near-Death Experience The leaders of Scient Corp. built a thriving, fast-growing consulting firm that owed its very life to the Internet economy. Then the dotcoms imploded -- and many of Scient's customers folded. Here's how the firm is preparing for the next economy.

At Your Service Service businesses -- particularly small, local companies -- have lagged in the new economy not for lack of opportunity but for lack of imagination. Think your day spa or television-repair shop or exterminator service gains nothing by going online? Think again...

Can You Find The Gorilla in This Picture? No one likes to admit defeat, least of all the Consultant Debunking Unit ( CDU ). But even this investigative outfit, famous for debunking tall tales told by consultants, has encountered a few nuts that its crack team simply couldn't, um, crack...